Rubik’s Cube solving robots are nothing new, anything capable of the dexterity of solving one has probably already been made to solve it, however this Lego one seems (from the little information the video offers) pretty sophisticated and is able to solve the problem in just under 3 minutes. Pretty rad.

Namibia's Ministry of Environment and Tourism technologies (MET) trialled the scheme back in November 2013, which had drones flying day and night relaying live footage of herds of black rhinos back to rangers.

Firing rockets over your neighbourhood from a DIY remote igniter mounted atop a quadcopter drone might not be the best plan if you want to stay off some watch-lists or out of trouble with authorities, but it doesn't stop this guy.

It's not the first time we've seen this theory, bipedal robots that can walk on rough terrains and withstand the punishment of objects being thrown at it. But it's rare that when you see a working version it's a little hobby robot.

PIDDYBOT is a self balancing, inverted pendulum robot designed to teach the basics of PID control to kids in real-time. The project is based on his previous Tiny Balancing Robot, which was too simple using only an on-off bang-bang approach for the motors, and no PID control to speak of.